summer 1977 - rmc and cmr midshipmen in clinker-built cutter - preparing to escort the comd marpac and his wife across victoria harbour (see salty dip “bang not a whimper” under classmates/anecdotes)
in VICTORIA HARBOUR during the summer of 1977, THE SALTY DOGS PREPARE TO ESCORT THE admiral IN THEIR CLINKER-BUILT CUTTER, CLAD IN THE OLD BRITISH JACK-TAR SAILOR OUTFITS. FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, FROM THE STERN; RICH GIMBLETT AND MARC-ANDRE GAGNON; MARK BEAULIEU AND BUTCH BOUCHARD; DAVE BANNISTER, GUY KILLABY; AND DOUG MACLEAN; RICK BRACKEN, DAVE MARSHALL, PETE AVIS AND MARCEL ETHIER; GILLES HAINSE AND DENIS BOUCHARD (see anecdote “cmr and rmc mdiship - bang not a whimper)
MARS II (HMCS Saskatchewan Sea Phase) - mark beaulieu, rich gimblett and dave marshall
MARS II (HMCS Saskatchewan Sea Phase) - Front from left: (unknown reservist), Doug McLean, Dave Alder, (unknown CMR), Paul Maddison. Second row from left: (unknown reservist), (unknown reservist), Rich Gimblett, (unknown CMR), Doug Maybee, (unknown CMR). Back row from left: Mark Beaulieu, Dave Marshall, Bob Edmundston, Dave Speck (civvy ROTP with whom I later sailed in Gatineau), (unknown reservist), Roger Hitesman.
booner (front left) and pete avis (third from right in back)
4th Year Exchange with the Ecole Navale de Poulmic (Brest, France). from cllass of 79, rich gimblett (far left) and sylvain roy (center). fred jardine was in third year (beside sylvain).